An opposition between two of these nine functions is crucial for at least some indefinite pronouns in some languages.
This countability judgment was compared with their performance on a cloze test for 24 obligatory indefinite articles.
Incompatibility of indefinite subjects with progressive aspect must be due to the fact that middles in the progressive describe specific, ongoing events.
Nouns appearing with definite articles were approximately the same frequency and length as nouns appearing with indefinite articles.
In response to this, the need has arisen for an indefinite pronominal form or a form which will in a sense be ' gender neutral'.
The indefinite placing of this period is echoed by the very ambiguity of the character himself.
Quantificational notions are instead expressed by nominals, which exhibit systematic ambiguities between weak (indefinite), strong (definite), and predicative interpretations.
For the present analysis gender marked definite and indefinite article forms were used irrespective of case.
